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S-HINGLE Filed Aug.'22,'1930 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 I A a/7y lib anyway? jaw M;

ATTORNEY.

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June 12, 1934. H. H. HONIGBAUM 1,962,197

SHINGLE Filed Aug. 22, 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY.

Patented June 12, 1 934 7 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1,902,191 snmam Harry B. Honigbaum, New York, N. Y. Application August 22, 1930, Serial No. 477,008 laims. (01.108-33) .This invention relates to shingles. While the under sides of further modified forms of shingles invention may be incorporated in shingles of any embodying the invention. material, it is particularly useful in connection Figure 7 is a section on the line 'l7 of Fig. 6. with so-called composition shingles. Further- Figure 8 is a perspective view showing three it more, the invention may be employed with shinshinglesaccording to the present invention laid gles of various shapes, but it is especially intended on a roof in the manner in which they cooperate for the diamond or hexagonal form of individual to form a weather-proof covering therefor. shingle. v Referring to the drawings, and especially to The object of the invention is to provide 2. Figures 1 and 2, 1 indicates the body of a. shingle.

1o shingle which may be manufactured with great This body is a flat body provided with a weather 05 economy and one which will embody pronounced end 2 and lateral edges 3 which adjacent the practical advantages. Speaking generally, the weather end are exposed when the shingle is laid. shingle of this invention comprises abody and Extending across the body 1 is a member 4. This one or more members made separate from the member is made separate from the body and is 15 body and secured directly to the under side of secured to the under side of the shingle as shown. the body. This member or membersisor are pro- It may be of any suitable material and may be vided with one or more extensions which project secured to the shingle body in any appropriate laterally beyond the contiguous edges of the. way. It made of non-metallic material, it may body of the shingle and are adapted to extend be adhesively secured to the body or may be 20 beneath the edges of shingles of the next preceding stapled, riveted or fastened thereto in a permacourse. nent manner most convenient. If made of metal,

7 A novel feature of the invention resides in proprongs 5 punched from the middle maybe forced viding an exposed portion of the edge of the through the material as showninFig. 2 to secure shingle with a flange turned at right angles to. the member to the body. Any number of these 25 the bodyof the shingle and extending downwardly. prongs may e mpl yed. The member 4 illus- This flange may be of any desired height so that trated in these figures is of substantially U- it imparts to the shingle the optical effect of ap-' shaped cross section with one flange 6 fastened preciably increased thickness. So far as I am to the body and the other flange 7 extended beaware, shingles with one or more turned down yond the edges 3 of the body to form laterally 30 edges or vertical flanges, such as I have described projecting wings which may be either straight as are distinctively novel in this art, and my experishown or the edges 8 may be tapered, so as to ments therewith have shown that it imparts to a converge toward one another in a downward diroof of these shingles an unusually pleasing and rection as indicated in the other figures of the rich effect, while materially reinforcing the shindrawings.

35 gle, The portions 9 which extend beyond the edges Features of the invention, other than those 3 form retaining members which are adapted to specified, will be apparent from the hereinafter extend beneath the contiguous edges of adjacent detailed description and claims, when read in conshingles of an underlying course to hold down the junction with the accompanying drawings. weather end. of the shingle 1, so as to keep it 40 I The accompanying drawings illustrate differfrom flapping or curling. It will be noted that cut practical embodiments of the invention, but the extensions 9 are spaced above the back of the the constructions therein shown are to be underbody in Fig. 1, thereby facilitating the laying of stood as illustrative, only, and not as defining the the shingle. At the weather end of the shingle limits of the invention. is a substantially right angular flange 10 as shown.

45 Figure 1 is afragmental perspective viewshow- It is within the purview of the invention to ing the under side of the weather end of a diaform smaller flanges along the edges 3 and these mond shaped shingle provided with the lateral flanges may extend for the whole or a part projections and the downwardly extending flange of the length of these edges, so as to give the to which I have referred. 7 effect of greatly increased thickness of the body.

50 Figure 2 is a section on the line 2--2 of Fig. l. The formation of flanges as stated along one or Figure 3 is a perspective view of the front or more of the edges of the shingle body is not reexposed face of a modified form of shingle made stricted to the structure of Fig. 1, but may be according to this invention. used on any shingle without departing from this Figure 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3. invention as I consider this feature per se high- 55 Figures 5 and 6 are perspective views of the ly novel and important.

In the structure shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the shingle body 11 is shown as provided on its back and near its weather end 12 with a transversely extending member 14 secured to the body by means of punched out prongs 15. The extending portions 19 are hooked upwardly to provide inclined edges 18. Figure 4 very clearly shows the manner of attaching the member 14 to the shingle body 11. This form of attachment, however, while particularly adapted for metal members is not the exclusive way of attaching them. Any other appropriate form of attachment may be employed.

The structure of Fig. 5 differs from the structure of Fig. 3 primarily in that the members 2e which correspond to the members 4 and 1 are made in two distinct and separate parts which are individually secured to the back of the shingle and have hook shaped extensions'29 which extend beyond the edges of the shingle body 21.

The structure of Figs. 6 and 7 is similar to the construction of Fig. 3, except that the member 34 is made relatively wide and is secured, forexample, as by stapling, an adhesive, or in any other suitable way within the confines of the line 40, so as to leave the lower edge of said mem her free to bend outwardly as indicated at 41 in Fig. '7. The member has the hooked shaped extensions 39 as shown. The practice, the members 4, 14, 24, and 34 may be made either metallic or non-metallic. If metallic they may be made up from scrap stock in a convenient and economical way. If made up of non-metallic material, such, for example, as asbestos or composition roofing material, scrap or waste can be employed in their manufacture, and if of a nonmetallic material, these devices maybe readily adhesively secured in place on the back of the body as described. The edges of all of the shingles may be plain as stated or two or more of them may be flanged as I have described. With the flanged construction, the rearwardly offset hooked wings are advantageous in facilitating the laying of the shingles while making it unnecessary to unbend or flatten down the flanges along the edges of the shingle. If flanges are utilized in the structures of Figs. 3 and 5, it may be desirable if the flanges are relatively deep to rearwardly offset the extensions 19 and 29, so as to permit these extensions to be introduced beneath the contiguous edges of underlying shingles without crushing the flanges of the shingles of either course.

I have hereinbefore referred to the flanges 2. These flanges are formed by bending down one or more of the edges of the shingle and in a composition shingle this may be readily accomplished while the shingle is hot and in the course of manufacture. The several members 4, 14, 24 and 34, may be conveniently in practice made from relatively cheap or waste material. This is particularly true where these members are of composition or asbestos material. The cost of the members therefore when made of such materials is practically nil, as the stock employed therein would otherwise be thrown away.

In Figure 8, I have shown how shingles are laid to form a roof embodying the present invention. Three courses of shingles are indicated in this figure. The shingle 11 is of the last laid course. The shingles 11a are of the next subjacent course and the shingle 11b indicated in double dot and dash lines in this figure is of the course underlying said ,subjacent course. The shingles shown in this figure are of the type illustrated in Figure 3 of the drawings provided with a turned down flange at the weather end, this flange 2 extending downwardly and substantially bridging the space between the edges of the subjacent shingles 11a and terminating in a downwardly facing natural cut edge bearing against the shingle 11b of the course underlying said subjacent course. The Wings 19 hold down the shingle 11 so that the under face of said shingle is in face abutting relation with the shingles 11a and at the sametime force the lower natural cut edge of the flange 2 against the face of the shingle 111). I

A pronounced advantage of the structure of this invention resides in its marked economy and the further fact that no part of the body of the shingle is cut away and there need be absolutely no waste in the manufacture of the shingle. Practically every portion of the material used for the manufacture of the body of the shingle may be utilized as there need be no actual waste in the cutting and the little waste which may occur could be used in making the anchorage members to which I have referred.

The present invention therefore is unusually economical to manufacture and may be sold at a relatively low price. Furthermore the forms of anchoring members are such that they may be readily slipped under the edges of shingles of an underlying course because they lie below the shingle on which they are mounted and thus radiallyline up with the shingles under which they extend. Furthermore, they do not tend to bend or distort the shingle on which they are attached, but permit said shingle to lie flat on the roof. The present invention contemplates not only the shingle construction to which I have referred, but also a roof embodying shingles made in accordance with this invention.

The foregoing detailed description sets forth the invention in its preferred practical forms, which are shown as illustrative only, the invention being fully commensurate with the appended claims.

By the term natural out, as used in the appended claims, I mean the raw edge of the composition material which is produced when this material is blanked out from roll stock by dies after the manner generally practised in this art.

Having thus fully described the invention,

what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A roof embodying composition shingles laid in successive courses in overlapping staggered relation, each shingle comprising a substantially flat body having sheer lateral edges which overlie in close contiguous relation the bodies of adjacent shingles of the next subjacent course and converge toward the weather end of the body, said body being provided along said weather end with a flange extending downwardly and substantially bridging the space between the edges of said subjacent shingles and terminating in a downwardly facing natural cut edge bearing against the face of a shingle of thecourse underlying said subjacent course, and wings secured to the under side of the body adjacent the flange and projecting in opposite lateral directions in a plane below the plane of the body and extend ing beneath the bodies of said subjacent shingles to hold down the shingle body and maintain the downwardly facing natural cut edge of said flange in position to bear upon the shingle of said underlying course.

2. A composition shingle comprising a body provided along its weather end with a flange extending in a downward direction in substantially right angular relation to the body for a distance below the body approximately equal to the thickness of the body and there terminating in a downwardly facing natural cut edge, said body having unobstructed sheer lateral edges which diverge from the flanged weather end, whereby when a plurality of such shingles are laid upon a roof, the said body is adapted to lie flat and in facial engagement with the underlying portions or the shingles oi. the subjacent shingle course with the downwardly facing edge 01' said HARRY H. HONIGBAUM. 1 

